Ushering in the 3D Memory Era with

V- NAND

Aug. 2013

Jim Elliott (Vice President, Memory Marketing)

E.S. Jung (EVP/GM, Semiconductor R&D Center)

Flash Memory

Summit 2013

Santa Clara, CA

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Contents

End User Paradigm Shift

NAND Flash Ubiquity

NAND Flash Scaling Limitation

World’s 1st 3D NAND Flash Technology: V-NAND

Era of V-NAND Based Products

It All Started Here…

And Continues to Change the World

Personal Devices Rich Multi-Media

Apps Apps Apps!

Server & Cloud High Performance, Efficiency & Robustness TCO!

Laptop Experience Instant ON, Battery Life &

Sleek Design

Change in User Environment: PC Mobile + Cloud

Information growth drivers over time

2012: Mobile connected devices exceeded the world's population

Internet of everything!

Impact on Datacenter Infrastructure

* 1000 PB: 1EB (1018)

More applications for data Data traffic: 78% CAGR

Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index

5 EB: Total data created between the dawn of civilization and 2003

More video is uploaded to YouTube

in one month than the 3 major US

networks created in 60 years

Billions of

Devices!

What about Exabytes?

NAND Flash Ubiquity

NAND is now an integral part of virtually every consumer device

NAND Flash

By 2020 >50B things will be connected… …And they will all need flash

NAND Demand Growth

NAND demand is expected to reach 36B(1GB Eq.) in 2013

Mobile phones, SSDs and Tablets remain significant drivers for NAND demand

Source: Samsung & IHS, 2Q 2013

NAND Bit Shipment Trend

4.0 5.5 1.8

9.0

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’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16

CAGR: 60.3%

In 2015, there will be enough Flash to give every single person in the US a 256GB SSD

Has Moore’s Law Come to an End for NAND?

Maintaining planar evolution so far… But, Scaling is getting difficult

• Sub-1ynm hitting the limit of cell reliability Enterprise ?

• Tremendous investment cost required to continue Consumer ?

120nm 1Gb

70nm 4Gb

90nm 2Gb

60nm 8Gb

19nm 128Gb

40nm 32Gb

50nm 16Gb

Cost of Patterning

Future die shrinks: Prohibitively expensive, reliability concerns, diminishing wafer productivity

How to power the Internet of Everything with NAND?

Disruptive technology is required to continue to satisfy capacity, cost and reliability requirements

ES Jung, Ph.D

EVP & GM,

Semiconductor R&D Center

Human Desire for NAND

High Speed

High Density

Low Power

High Reliability

Cell to Cell Interference

2 Questions

Patterning

20nm

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10nm

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Cell Cell

D/R

Over 30nm

Over 30nm Over 30nm

Q1. Why so difficult ?

Q2. 3D V-NAND Can Solve ?

Cell to Cell Interference

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Patterning

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Q2. 3D V-NAND Can Solve ?

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Control Gate

3 Disruptive Innovations

3D V-NAND

Floating Gate

2D CTF

3D CTF

Substrate-Si S D

Innovation

Innovation

Innovation

Material (2003)

Structure (2008)

Integration (2008)

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Innovation Result: V-NAND Cell

Word Line

W/L Interference Almost Free

Patterning Issue Free

Cell to Cell Interference

Patterning

Bit Line

B/L Interference Free

V-NAND Era for the Future

2D Planar

‘05 ‘13 ‘07 ‘09 ‘11 Year

Design Rule (nm)

‘03

3D V-NAND / No Patterning Limitation

128Gb

16Gb

8 stack

128Gb

24 stack

1Tb

‘17 ‘15

Paradigm Shift from Drive to Fly

Material

Structure

Integration

Innovative Technology

3D Memory Era Begins Today !

World’s 1st V-NAND Based SSD

• SATA 6Gbps • 2.5” Form Factor • 480/960GB • Power-Loss Data Protection

Benefits of V-NAND Based SSD

Planar NAND SSD (8Ch, 8dies/Ch)

22% Faster

20% Faster

27% Lower

45% Lower

V-NAND SSD (8CH, 4dies/Ch)

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Less Real Estate

Higher Performance

Performance

Low Power Consumption

Power

* Note: Performance and power result is based on measured maximum improvement.

Benefits of V-NAND Based SSD

Benefits of V-NAND Based SSD

Planar

2D Box

Benefits of V-NAND Based SSD

V-NAND

Greater V-NAND cell reliability expanded NAND universe

• CE: lower cost continuum. Enterprise: endurance enabling rapid adoption rate

• Lightning fast internet of the future!

Planar

Endurance

Performance

Consumer

Enterprise

SSD Market Forecast

Planar NAND

$/Gb

Endurance Performance

SSD market growth has always been constrained

• Doubts about keeping up $/Gb improvements

• Concerns about degrading NAND Flash parameters (Endurance, Performance, Retention..)

[Samsung Projection based on 2013 2Q iSuppli market forecast ]

SSD Market Forecast

Planar NAND

$/Gb

Endurance Performance

SSD market growth has always been constrained

• Doubts about keeping up $/Gb improvements

• Concerns about degrading NAND Flash parameters (Endurance, Performance, Retention..)

[Samsung Projection based on 2013 2Q iSuppli market forecast ]

K Units K Units Enterprise Client

SSD Market Forecast with V-NAND Impact

Enterprise Client

“SSD for Everyone!”

K Units

[Samsung Projection based on 2013 2Q iSuppli market forecast ]

2X 3X

V-NAND

K Units

The V-NAND Vision: 20/20 to 2020

V- N A N D: F U T U R E O F F L A S H

M E M O R Y

I S T O D A Y

Drive New Applications

Lead Green IT Market

Create Next-Generation Business

Samsung’s innovation doesn’t stop here… We will continue to push the best technology solutions

It’s time for the IT Industry to evolve.

Thank You